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Posted on 12/25/2004 7:02:10 PM PST by jb6
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Andry Kosenko with Yulia Tymoshenko When UNA-UNSO radical nationalist party member Andry Kosenko, indicted for allegedly causing mass public disorder on March 9, 2001, was released from police custody he vowed to do everything to liberate his comrades who are still kept in prison.
Andry Kosenko is the first from a group of protesters jailed after March 9, 2001 clashes with police to be freed from prison with a ban on travelling. In December 2002, a court sentenced the group of 14 UNA-UNSO members to terms in prison ranging from 2 to 5 years. Kosenko got 2 years, of which a larger part he spent in jail awaiting trial.
Kosenko, 23, says he has far-reaching plans. His first priority is to help free his comrades from prison. Says Kosenko: "If more protests come, I will eagerly join them, because my buddies are imprisoned, and I must do everything to free them. I will personally take part in protests, but I am not going to fall for provocations set up by the regime to compromise protesters."
Incidentally, prosecution submitted 18 video tapes as evidence at the trial of UNA-UNSO members, saying they record public order violations by the radicals during which 71 policemen were supposedly physically assaulted.
Soon, other radicals are to be released. Three more UNA-UNSO members must be freed late May, their defense lawyer Yevhen Nykolenko says, with one to be released early June. However, their release hinges on how the court interprets the law under which the court sentence, once appealed against, is considered invalid. Since the case is tried by an appellate court, for this reason the protesters can remain in custody, says Yevhen Nykolenko. "The case can be covered by a number of legislative acts, and, if interpreted the way we want it, the boys must be released because the appellate court cannot sentence them to longer than the original terms. On the other hand, however, the sentence has been appealed against and, prior to its consideration by an appellate court, the sentence is considered invalid. You have also take into account that the boys have already spent part of their terms in jail during the investigation. The situation is pretty knotty and unregulated directly by the Ukrainian law. But, based on logic, a person should not spend more time in confinement than the term passed by a court."
Meanwhile, Andry Kosenko is greatly worried by the increasingly deteriorating health of his comrades still in custody.
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There's a post-Soviet phrase hailing the inventor of the ak-47: "God merely created man; equality was made possible thanks to General Kalashnikov."
Ukraine's extreme right-wing nationalist political group, the National Ukrainian Assembly-Ukrainian People for Unity, or UNA-UNSO, and its newspaper Za Vilny Ykrainy have become notorious for their anti-Russian and anti-Semitic views since the movement's founding in 1991 following the merger of various nationalist groups. UNA-UNSO leaders, who describe their party as "fascist," maintain that Ukraine has "no time for such foolish things as democracy" and admire the Irish Republican Army. UNA-UNSO has now issued "An appeal to Ukrainian troops in Iraq." The appeal reads, "Based upon 400-years experience of the national liberation movement of Ukrainian people, we appeal to the Ukrainian military contingent in Iraq to turn your bayonets against U.S. troops and join the rebels. Ukraine and progressive mankind will be proud of you!"
Read my next post from them. It's a doozy. Now remember, they won 3 seats in the Rada (Parliment) riding on Yushchenko's Our Ukraine's tail. They are also bosom buddies with Yulia Tomoschenko, who is Yushchenko's second and future VP. Lovely bunch.
UKRAINIAN RADICAL NATIONALISTS SEE ATTACKS ON U.S. AS 'MORAL SATISFACTION.' While most Ukrainian parties and politicians condemned the 11 September terrorist attacks on the U.S., the radical nationalist Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO) said these attack are a source of "moral satisfaction" for "millions." According to the UNA-UNSO, the attacks can be seen as revenge for the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan and air raids on Vietnam, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yugoslavia. "The boomerang of history has begun to come back," Interfax quoted from a UNA-UNSO statement. The UNA-UNSO noted that any global destabilization in the wake of the attacks will add to Ukraine's power in the future. JM
UNA-UNSO appeal to Ukrainian troops in Iraq
Basing upon 400-years experience of national liberation movement of Ukrainian people we appeal to Ukrainian military contingent in Iraq to turn your bayonets against USA troops and join the rebels. Ukraine and progessive mankind will be proud of you!"
They should remember what happened the last time a bunch of f**king Nazis turned their bayonets against American soldiers!
Where are the usual Russian haters?
Ah yes the voices of conservatism. Not.
And where are those pesky russophobes when threads like this are posted, anyway?
crickets chirping.....
This is, of course, exactly what we have known all along.
May the truth come to rest where it is most needed, PING!
You shall know them by the fruits they bare.
Not only exactly, but you notice the typical "progressive" BS, where they call on someone else to die for their cause while they sit happily at home and risk nothing. If they are so strong in their beliefs, why aren't they shooting at US troops and dieing?
Ukraine’s radical nationalist organization, UNA-UNSO, will propose creating a Ukraine-Chechnya friendship society to foster links with the rebellious republic, leader of the UNA-UNSO and Verkhovna Rada deputy Andry Shkil announced. "Chechnya will soon become an independent state, and Ukraine must develop cooperation with it," he said. He said that the society’s main objective is to strengthen friendship between the Ukrainian and Chechen peoples. UNA-UNSO has also began work on setting up a Ukrainian-Chechen information center. The center will include a Ukrainian version of the kavkaz.org website, Shkil reiterated. Another Ukrainian site will host positive information on Chechnya. "The war in Chechnya is receiving too much ink. We are out to show the positives," he stressed.
hmm most of it is radical aspirations to guide attention to themselves. If you read history about cossacks you will notice this sort of thing going in a cycle and tendencies that repeat themselves. Ergo cossacks on the eastern side were much less hostile to russia and toward the later years stoped looking at it as an enemy and an ideological schism split ukraine along the dniepr.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, visiting Germany, has agreed on the participation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union in settling the Chechen conflict. After talks with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the city of Hamburg, Putin said Moscow had carefully analyzed Germany’s proposals on its participation in settling the conflict. “We accept these proposals,” he said. - Russia Journal
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